On June 23, 2023, the dean of Fundação Getulio Vargas’ School of Social Sciences (FGV CPDOC), Professor Celso Castro, was elected chairman of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee RC01 – Armed Forces and Conflict Resolution. His election to this four-year post reinforces the leadership and innovation profile of CPDOC’s researchers.

The committee aims to foster contact between social scientists specializing in this subject all over the world; encourage the international sharing of research findings, theoretical developments and methodologies; and promote teaching activities. The first meeting of what would become Research Committee RC01 took place at a conference about the armed forces in London in July 1964, chaired by sociologist Morris Janowitz.

Castro began his duties as chairman at the committee’s meeting at the 20^th ISA World Congress of Sociology, which took place in Melbourne, Australia between June 25 and July 1.

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